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US 12,619,302 B2Granted
Imaging apparatus, method of controlling imaging apparatus, and program
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsMasakazu Mitsugi, Masanari Sugita
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes a control unit that executes control in a manner corresponding to the fact that a state of an image capturing person determined on the basis of line-of-sight information is a gaze target undetermined state in which a gaze target has not been determined.
Claims20
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a memory storing program code, and
- a processor configured to execute the program code to perform operations comprising:
- generate line-of-sight information based on a result of detecting a line of sight of an image capturing person;
- ascertaining whether a gaze target of an image capturing person is determined on a basis of the line-of-sight information;
- applying a gaze target undetermined state where it is ascertained, based on the line-of-sight information, that the gaze target of the image capturing person is not determined,
- wherein the gaze target undetermined state is applied when it is determined that a gaze target unselected state is present, the gaze target unselected state being a state in which it is undetermined which one of multiple candidate target subjects is the gaze target;
- determining a focus region to include a target subject when the gaze target undetermined state is applied;
- and
- determining the target subject on a basis of an imaging situation during a prior gaze target determined state,
- wherein the imaging situation is a subject type of a prior target subject of the prior gaze target determined state.
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A method of controlling an imaging apparatus, the method comprising
- generate line-of-sight information based on a result of detecting a line of sight of an image capturing person;
- ascertaining whether a gaze target of an image capturing person is determined on a basis of the line-of-sight information;
- applying a gaze target undetermined state where it is ascertained, based on the line-of-sight information, that the gaze target of the image capturing person is not determined,
- wherein the gaze target undetermined state is applied when it is determined that a gaze target unselected state is present, the gaze target unselected state being a state in which it is undetermined which one of multiple candidate target subjects is the gaze target;
- determining a focus region to include a target subject when the gaze target undetermined state is applied;
- and,
- determining the target subject on a basis of an imaging situation during a prior gaze target determined state,
- wherein the imaging situation is a subject type of a prior target subject of the prior gaze target determined state.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for controlling an imaging apparatus, the program being executable by a processor to perform operations comprising:
- generate line-of-sight information based on a result of detecting a line of sight of an image capturing person;
- ascertaining whether a gaze target of an image capturing person is determined on a basis of the line-of-sight information;
- applying a gaze target undetermined state where it is ascertained, based on the line-of-sight information, that the gaze target of the image capturing person is not determined,
- wherein the gaze target undetermined state is applied when it is determined that a gaze target unselected state is present, the gaze target unselected state being a state in which it is undetermined which one of multiple candidate target subjects is the gaze target;
- determining a focus region to include a target subject when the gaze target undetermined state is applied;
- and,
- determining the target subject on a basis of an imaging situation during a prior gaze target determined state,
- wherein the imaging situation is a subject type of a prior target subject of the prior gaze target determined state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.